Medical Dictionary
circular dichroism
noun
Medical Definition of CIRCULAR DICHROISM
1
: the property (as of an optically active medium) of unequal absorption of right and left plane-polarized light so that the emergent light is elliptically polarized
2
: a spectroscopic technique that makes use of circular dichroism
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